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Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring)

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Spectrum Protect Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 IE11 support

Spectrum Protect (TSM) Monitoring/Reporting 7.1.3 requires IE8 or IE9 browsers. Microsoft, and my employer, are now supporting only IE11/Edge. The request is to update the software to provide a modern browser support point.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center not show pre and post schedule failed

When preschedule or postschedule fail, Schedules appear as succesfull in Operation Center. To find wich pre or postschedules that failed, we have to use the comand line to query event and find which one are in Error Status 8.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring agent doesn't have cluster configuration support.

Usually, TSM is installed into cluster configuration. But monitoring agent doesn't support it. All of standart Tivoli Monitoring agents have this opportunity, but not SK agent.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

TSM OC reports same node multiple times

OC reports the same node multiple time making administrators job not very easy.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

ITM TSM agent application support on zlinux ITM TEMS, TEPS servers

Previous enhancement request 27428 was closed with status of delivered and statement."This capability has been delivered with TSM 6.4 (TSM server 6.3.3). We have a small agent install in TSM 6.4 that will meet this requirement"This enhancement req...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

Provide ability to change email subjects dynamically on TSM reports using TCR

We have transitioned from using scripts to generate email reports for successful/failed backups on a daily basis to use TSM Reporting using TCR/ITM. While our current scripts are easily able to generate dynamic email subjects to mention that yeste...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Replace DEFAULT with actual management class name in reporting.

The default management class is always shown as DEFAULT in SELECT * from BACKUPS reports rather than the actual class name which would be more useful in determining what the retention periods are for a given set of backup files, whereas with defau...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

Document, support procedure to import TSM 6.3 Cognos reports in TCR server

ITM V6 customers already have ITM TEMS, TEPS and Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) servers for monitoring. TCR 2.1.1 can be downloaded and installed from ITM 6.2.3....We need to know the TSM 6.3 package to download/extract to retrieve the TSM 6.3 Cognos...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3 Cognos Data Model not use hardcoded schema name of ITMUSER

See Use Case for our ITM, TDW, TCR, TSM environment. PMR 84654 057 649 opened with TSM 6.3 Cognos Data Model and reports failing with error message "UDA-SQL-0196 The table or view $object was not found in the dictionary.". This is due to TSM 6.3 C...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 4 Not under consideration

FastBack reporting in Tivoli Common Reports

Customer has FastBack and TSM and has a strong need for reporting of both products in Tivoli Common Reports.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

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